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To help celebrate the Bard's birth, @amysparkes has dropped the price of the DRM-free ebook of "The Players: Act 1" to 99p/c across all retailers and wrote a little newsletter/blogpost about his influence on her writing.

https://buttondown.com/AmySparkesAuthor/archive/happybirthdayshakespeare-discover-the-players-for/

@bookstodon

🚨 FREE GAME ALERT

Enjoy the action and adventure in this classic game Alone in the Dark: The Trilogy 1+2+3. Claim your free copy for a limited time via GOG DRM Free.

🎮 https://www.gog.com/en/game/alone_in_the_dark_the_trilogy_123

Don't forget to use the helpful information from Lutris https://lutris.net/games/alone-in-the-dark-1/, https://lutris.net/games/alone-in-the-dark-2/ and https://lutris.net/games/alone-in-the-dark-3/.

“Amazon will let you download your e-books in EPUB in 2026”

So, this could be big for authors on KDP. Customers will be able to use any eReader they wish to read their books.

I’ve been on a Kobo Clara Colour (with Kobo Plus) for a while. And I’d love to slip a few Kindle Exclusive titles in. The whole exclusivity thing is kind of galling, from an e-reader/walled garden perspective.

This sounds great from a consumer-freedom perspective. But I understand there may be some authors who are reluctant or worried.

Personally... If the Napster wars era of mp3’s (ending up in Spotify/Amazon Music/et al.) taught anyone anything, it is that as long as you provide a product at a reasonable price, in a conveniently accessible manner, you won’t have a piracy problem.

https://goodereader.com/blog/kindle/amazon-will-let-you-download-your-e-books-in-epub-in-2026

Are you going to update your books to …

If you want DRM free versions of my e-books, or audiobooks, just contact me so we can work out a payment method and what format you would like. You can also get the audiobooks as a podcast. Https://sightlessscribbles.com/support/

And I serialize all of my audiobooks on my podcast. There’s a lot that’s open to the public but to get my audiobooks as a podcast, https://tips.pinecast.com/jar/weirdwritings you’ll get a private RSS feed after you tip monthly. @bookstodon

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Level up your TTRPG life-stats (+10) with The Ultimate Guide to Tabletop RPGs, Worldbuilding, and Folklore bundle from Humble! 💜

Add new tabletop RPG skills, techniques, and knowledge to your gaming toolbelt with these 27 DRM-free ebooks. Discover exciting insights from ebooks like Ultimate RPG Game Master's Guide, Norse Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook, and much more.

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ultimate-guide-to-tabletop-rpgs-worldbuilding-and-folklore-adams-media-books

Hey! I've got eight and available for sale. Six of them are collections; two are novels.

You can get copies at https://ko-fi.com/treelobsters/shop

Or you can find them through your favorite vendor at https://books2read.com/ap/ng21bz/Steve-DeGroof

Cover art of eight books

Strong recommendation for my German-speaking followers. Unbedingte Empfehlung, wenn ihr Deutsch versteht: Cory Doctorow @pluralistic kann ein bisschen Unterstützung für die deutschsprachige DRM-freie Hörbuch-Version von "Red Team Blues" gebrauchen.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-auf-deutsche-drm-freie

Red Team Blues ist ein unterhaltsamer, spannender Kriminalroman über den charismatischen Computer-Forensiker im Ruhestand Martin Hench, der in einem High-Tech Wohnmobil in Kalifornien unterwegs ist, einen Mord und eine Crypto-Verschwörung aufklären muss und dabei selbst ins Fadenkreuz gerät.

Unterstützenswert, nicht nur weil Cory Doctorow seine Bücher und Hörbücher konsequent DRM-frei auch ohne Audible anbietet 🙏